[Zope-Coders] Re: Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: revising layout of ZODB3 checkout

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Just FYI, Xouvert (XFree86 'experimental branch, not fork') is invested
enough in arch that they mention it on http://www.xouvert.org

"What is Arch?

Arch is what makes Xouvert possible. Arch is Tom Lord's advanced changeset
management system, a superset of mere "revision control systems" like CVS
and Subversion. Arch will let us make radical changes to the directory
layout of Xouvert, yet still be able to easily track and apply the changes
in the original XFree86 tree.

The clean design of arch makes it trivial for anyone who downloads our
source code to create their own local "branch" for development, keep it
under revision control, then have their modifications merged, with
complete history, back upstream at some point in the future. This is next
to impossible to do with CVS."

Perhaps their experiences with arch (and cygwin) would be informative:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-10/msg00030.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-10/msg00036.html